This spammer created multiple accounts on various Lemmy instances to post self advertisements. How do we combat this? ( media.kbin.social )

Illecors , 11 months ago

Ban and purge.

Cloudless OP , 11 months ago

How? I feel like it might be too easy for such accounts to be created. And they already pollute the fediverse before their accounts get banned. I think this will be more common until we have more proactive measures.

Norgur , 11 months ago

Mutli-Accounting/Creating mass-accounts for spam-reasons has been super easy on all platforms so far. What do you reckon "more proactive measures" to be?

pjhenry1216 , 11 months ago

Depending on implementation, the ban may also purge past posts so the "already pollute the fediverse" won't be that big of a problem.

Can't get too proactive beyond suggesting admins implement captchas and the like. Email verification. And that won't stop all.

I don't see this being much different than what occurred on reddit.